Debating Modern Revolution

Author : Jack R. Censer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472589645
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Modern Revolution written by Jack R. Censer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion continues but has also developed its meanings. Equated with democracy and legal equality at first and surprisingly redefined into its modern meaning, revolution has become a means to create nations, change the social order, and throw out colonial occupiers, and has been labelled as both conservative and reactionary. In this concise introduction to the topic, Jack R. Censer charts the development of these competing ideas and definitions in four chronological sections. Each section includes a debate from protagonists who represent various forms of revolution and counterrevolution, allowing students a firmer grasp on the particular ideas and individuals of each era. This book offers a new approach to the topic of revolution for all students of world history.

Author : Jack Richard Censer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781474298520
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Modern Revolution written by Jack Richard Censer and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2020 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion continues but has also developed its meanings. Equated with democracy and legal equality at first and surprisingly redefined into its modern meaning, revolution has become a means to create nations, change the social order, and throw out colonial occupiers, and has been labelled as both conservative and reactionary. In this concise introduction to the topic, Jack R. Censer charts the development of these competing ideas and definitions in four chronological sections. Each section includes a debate from protagonists who represent various forms of revolution and counterrevolution, allowing students a firmer grasp on the particular ideas and individuals of each era. This book offers a new approach to the topic of revolution for all students of world history"--

Author : Gwenda Morgan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526183986
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The debate on the American Revolution written by Gwenda Morgan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these events and their causes and, more contentiously, their meaning. Making accessible to modern readers the work of often-neglected early historians, this book examines how the emergence of history as a professional discipline led to new and competing versions of the history of the Revolution. It spans the entire period from the first generation of writers, whose ideas about history were shaped by the Enlightenment, to those of the twenty-first century who drew on the rich legacy provided by black studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural studies and ethnohistory. This book will be an invaluable resource for all students and scholars of the American Revolution.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472589378
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the Industrial Revolution written by Peter N. Stearns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. In Debating the Industrial Revolution, Peter N. Stearns, a leading expert in world history, presents the major contours of the ongoing debates over industrialization in history. He explores the central historical discussion over what caused such a momentous change, demonstrating how interpretations have developed over time and encouraging students to critically engage with historical practice. Trying to understand why industrialization happened, and why it continues to happen, continues to organize considerable analytical energy. This book will be the ideal primer for students wanting to understand the key debates, and get a sense of how they might develop in the future.

Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429975899
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Revolution Debate written by Clifford J Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081474656X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Revolutions written by Nikki R. Keddie and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together contemporary essays from the journal Contention, on the causes and prediction of revolutions. Contributors discuss the Iranian, Eastern European, and French revolutions, and the theoretical and comparative aspects of revolutionary study, and respond to each other's views in debate style. Topics include the social interpretation of the French Revolution, demographic cycles and structural analysis in the world system, and global implications of the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Peter J. Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526183692
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The debate on the French Revolution written by Peter J. Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up so much that it was impossible to speak with certainty about any kind of new 'orthodoxy' at all. The fact that the decade and a half following the Bicentenary offered up its own hotchpotch of theorising merely confirmed this. The survey of writings presents a cross-section of historians of the Revolution from the early nineteenth century right up to the present day. From liberals to conservatives and from Marxists to revisionists, it focuses on those individuals who are generally perceived to be the 'major' or 'pre-eminent' figures within revolutionary historiography. A ‘history of the histories’, this book will be an ideal starting point for those students seeking to better-understand the French Revolution and its history.

Author : Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461636671
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating the American Conservative Movement written by Donald T. Critchlow and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how a small band of conservatives in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War launched a revolution that shifted American politics to the right, challenged the New Deal order, transformed the Republican party into a voice of conservatism, and set the terms of debate in American politics as the country entered the new millennium. Historians Donald T. Critchlow and Nancy MacLean frame two opposing perspectives of how the history of conservatism in modern America can be understood, but readers are encouraged to reach their own conclusions through reading engaging primary documents.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155506
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason, Faith, and Revolution written by Terry Eagleton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the "superstitious" view of God held by most atheists and agnostics and offers in its place a revolutionary account of the Christian Gospel. On the other hand, he launches a stinging assault on the betrayal of this revolution by institutional Christianity. There is little joy here, then, either for the anti-God brigade -- Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in particular -- nor for many conventional believers. --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : George Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482686
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomies of Revolution written by George Lawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how revolutions begin, unfold and end, featuring a wide range of cases from across modern world history. Drawing on international relations, sociology, and global history, Lawson outlines the benefits of a 'global historical sociology' of revolutionary change, in which international processes take centre stage.